A study of the ‘imagetexts’ of the Daoist visual culture, signifying the tripartite realms of Heaven, Human, Earth by Han, Yuhui

“…Text-oriented designs such as sacred charts, which have aniconic, and power-evoking symbolism will be used to analyze the correspondence of the universal forces—Heaven, Earth and Human. Through my findings, I will arrive at how these forces mirror each other and move in a microcosmic/macrocosmic orbit with Humans at the center, being the trigger to seek balance and harmony or cause disharmony and discord with the other realms.…”
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The metaphysical symbolism of the chinese tortoise by Chong, Alan Wei Lun

“…The next part of the process is the differentiating, which brings us to the ‘Two’ complementary force of Yin and Yang, namely Heaven and Earth and their symbolic shapes reflected on the form of the tortoise as well as the tortoise entwined with snake (black tortoise). …”
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